Robert Turer, MD, MSE, MSACI
Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Robert Turer, MD, MSE, MSACI is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
After completing his undergraduate degree in computer engineering and a Masters degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, Dr. Turer attended the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed residency in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, where he served as a chief resident. He pursued fellowship training and a Masters degree in clinical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center before joining the faculty at UT Southwestern in 2021.
At UT Southwestern, Dr. Turer serves as a core faculty member within the Clinical Informatics Center, program director for the clinical informatics fellowship, and Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer (DCMIO) for analytics. As a researcher, he studies patient-facing technologies, including patient portals. Dr. Turer, along with Dr. Robin Higashi, was awarded a Texas health resources clinical scholars grant to study language-related disparities in patient portal enrollment and use among Spanish-speaking patients in Dallas.